The Dalai Lama You Never Hear Of

October 5th, 2011 - By j guevara

this is an excerpt from my novel, ‘From The Jungle’. Somebody asked me what’s my bitch with the Dalai Lama? It wouldn’t fit in one reply so I’m posting it here.

Or worse, look at Tibet under the Dalai Lama, the most treacherous, murderous, disgustingly brutal theocracy in history. Closed to the outside world for centuries, this theocracy turned Tibet into a feudal chamber of horrors. With a sparse population in a harsh and barren environment that hardly produced enough as it was, a hierarchy of sixty thousand lamas, monks, and novices in thousands of monasteries, backed by their selected warlords, ruled Tibet by unthinkable tortures and abject terror, taxing every grain of support out of a thoroughly beaten peasantry kept in a perpetual Dark Age.
During the 1930’s and 40’s, the Dalai Lama’s entourage and predecessors were so ingratiating to Third-Reich materialism you could not tell them apart. Thinking Tibet held an anthropological explanation, Hitler, with the high lama’s blessing, had several diplomatic missions scouring the country in search of mystical or genetic justification for his right-extremist perversion of Arian superiority. So influential was the Nazi regime that the Dalai Lama’s top foreign advisor and personal confidant at the time reported directly to headquarters in Berlin – a skeleton recently let out of the closet after release of, Seven Years In Tibet, a controversial movie on the subject.
Because of some glazy-eyed image of Shangri-la, I, like most Westerners, thought this Dalai Lama was some kind of reincarnated saint who the evil Communists forced into exile. In truth, as the Chinese marched into Lahasa, the capitol of Tibet, the peasants cheered them as liberators. Unfortunately, those poor, ignorant, battered but gentle peasant souls realized too late that they only exchanged one tyranny for another.
In the meantime, Dalai didn’t dilly as he and his cronies sneaked out of the country, and, like common thieves, stole what remained of the national treasury. By their own laws of karmic justice, however, they squandered it all through a fiasco of swindles and bad investments.
I had the opportunity to confront Dalai and his delegates with these accusations. Their response was, verbatim: “Yes, there were some excesses committed by the lamas, …but if the Chinese would to give to us back our country, … we would not to do that again.”
How sad to see that clown in his brightly colored orange and red robe, and the deceived dreamers that treat him with reverence as he sits mockingly unrepentant, being showered with donations while so many true Tibetans struggle in dire need of a little generosity.
No humor is lost, however, on this staunch, ultra-conservative Tibetan taking Western liberals to the cleaners. The obvious is there for anyone who cares to look. Where are all the new monasteries located? Typical of his Porsche-and-Mercedes congregation, from Santa Barbara to Vermont, all upscale enclaves of naive, jet set, yuppie wealth – the comparatively same aristocratic social stratum he pandered to back home. Like Jed Clampet, this guy went from the mountains of Tibet to the Hills of Beverly. You’ll never see the Dalai Do-Right give a talk in Harlem, Watts, Haiti, Rwanda. As all leaders of mega-buck theology, he has nothing but contempt for the poor.
The greater shame is, although Tibet’s mongrel form of what is called ‘Tantric’ Buddhism is as close to Gautama Buddha’s original teaching as I am to born-again Christianity, it is still a representative extension of a greater philosophy and spiritual insight that offers the human psyche a balanced alternative to the constrictions of Western religious dogma. And to have it so corrupted by this group of theological perverts is a crime of cosmic proportion (the same could be said for the likes of Stair, Peters, Falwell, Robertson, John II, or Graham II, and the way they malign the teachings of Jesus).
Were I the Dalai and his minions I would dedicate the remainder of my days to praying that there was no such thing as reincarnation, for there are not enough lifetimes left in eternity to repay their karmic debt to the six million blindly devoted peasant followers whom after centuries of brutal isolation, they stranded spiritually naked, physically defenseless, and morally abandoned to the genocidal tyranny of Chinese aggression.

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